One of my favorite game franchises on the PS2 was Max Payne. The mixture of film noir narrative and great 3rd person shooter action made for a highly addictive game, that I spent countless hours playing. Plus the fact you were able to shoot down half a room of bad guys in slow motion was just the icing on the cake.
In films, one of my favourite genres of all time has to be ‘Film Noir’. The grittiness and iconography the genre has is something that has always appealed to me and has appeared in so many things in my life. I was first subjected to Film Noir by my dad when he was going through a backlog of old films, I then studied it in A level during my Media Studies course, and at university I did a dissertation on [...]
Back on the PS2 Max Payne was the only 3rd person shooter I played. Back then I was free to try out games I could afford and Max Payne 1 was one of the first games I got for the PS2. I was amazing, the very idea of bullet time in a game was amazing to me. The Matrix had come out around the same time there wasn’t a game that used the slow mo effect that the Matrix had, [...]
Ever since the start of this year, gaming for me has always been about the next generation, the only games I would play were my Xbox 360. If I wanted to go down memory lane I would usually play Castlevania on my DS or go to the Xbox live arcade and play something like Doom or Sonic 2. Ever since I have finished Uni I have been a bit strapped for cash, not really knowing where the next game is [...]
I’ve noticed I have been doing a lot of demo reviews lately. Probably a bit samey and boring, kinda like the combat in TMNT but lets not go there again. A couple of nights ago I thought I would drag out the old PS2. Haven’t played it in ages, thinking I did get this console for free off a friend to replace my broken one, It was time to do it some justice. Now back when I was at uni [...]
So we are now approaching summer and Q2 2009. With 3 quarters of this year still to come we are gonna have some great games. So if money was no subject (shame it is really.) These would be the games i would be getting. I present to you my wish list! OUT NOW: Ninja Blade: As i am a hack and slash nut this one will come to no surprise. After playing the demo. I was quite impressed with it. [...]
Today Rockstar and take 2 interactive have announced that the 3rd installment in the max payne franchise isin the works! and has been pinned down for a winter 2009 release on Xbox 360, PS3 and PC! “We’re starting a new chapter of Max’s life with this game,” commented Rockstar cofounder Sam Houser in an interview with gamespot. “This is Max as we’ve never seen him before, a few years older, more world-weary and cynical than ever. We experience the downward [...]
